The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete, Chapter 13 summary
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In Chapter 13, Tom Sawyer and Joe Harper feel unwanted at home, recruit Huckleberry Finn, and take a raft to Jackson’s Island to live as pirates. Their delight in freedom gives way to guilt over stolen meat, and Tom and Joe resolve to avoid stealing while remaining pirates.
What happens
- Tom and Joe unite over their grievances at home and choose piracy instead of Joe’s proposed life as a hermit.
- They recruit Huck and arrange a midnight meeting with stolen supplies near a raft.
- Using pirate names and a password, the boys gather food, tobacco, and fire before pushing into the river.
- They reach Jackson’s Island around two in the morning, unload supplies, build shelter, and cook supper.
- The boys celebrate their freedom and discuss imagined pirate adventures while Huck smokes a corncob pipe.
- Huck sleeps, but Tom and Joe struggle with guilt until they promise themselves not to steal again.
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